ISLAMABAD: Police in Islamabad have detained a 72-year-old man who claimed to be their ‘boss’.
Officials told local media outlet that a retired policeman from Karachi had been pretending to be SSP Islamabad Police and residing in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa House.
The suspect, identified to be Tahir Khaili, had called the PM Secretariat on May 25 introducing himself as the SSP Islamabad. He asked officials at the Secretariat to assign him a room in the Federal Lodges.
However, the officers at the PM Secretariat dubious of man’s identity filed a complaint with the inspector general of police.
The application, submitted by a deputy secretary at the PM Secretariat called for the police authorities to investigate the matter and register a case against the suspect, or resort to disciplinary action against him if he was, in fact, an officer in the capital police.
However, when the police investigated the matter, they discovered that the man was a retired officer of Sindh Police from Karachi and had arrived in Islamabad a few days ago. Secretariat police believe that the suspect managed to get accommodation at the KP House through impersonation, and was now trying to move into the Federal Lodges.
He was arrested on May 28 and sent to Adiala Jail on judicial remand.